3. William Shatner
Shatner probably wished someone would beam him up and help him escape the hell of a year that was 1969.When he and his then wife Gloria Rand divorced, Shatner was broke and down and out, living in his pickup truck. “It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced,” he once Details magazine.”I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit—summer stock—but couldn’t afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell. It had a little stove, a toilet, and I’d drive from theater to theater. The only comfort came from my dog.”
Two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe later, he is worth an estimated $100 million and reports continue to come in that he made $600 million as the commercial pitchman for Priceline.com.
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